George Meredith; C. Day Lewis [intro.] — Modern Love and Other Poems

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948. Cloth. A delightful mid twentieth century edition of Meredith's celebrated sonnet sequence. A lovely 1948 edition of Meredith's 'novella in verse' about the failure of a marriage. The tale is told in a sequence of fifty sonnets and first appeared in 1862 as part of the volume 'Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside&apos. Written by George Meredith, an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. With an introduction from Cecil Day-Lewis, an Anglo-Irish poet who was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light wear and sunning to the extremities. Minor loss at the tail of the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.